Archive for April, 2009

Pro-Credit staff to organize Gala on May Day

Posted by on April 30, 2009 at 3:00 pm in Other Sports, Sports

  Pro-Credit Savings and Loan Company Limited has pieced together a soccer and volleyball gala for its Northern and Southern sector zones towards celebrations of the Workers Day on Friday, May 1.          Mrs Barbara Odei, head of the company’s organization department told the GNA Sports in Accra that the gala forms part of the [...]

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DNA ‘Barcoding’ Raises Hopes for Elephantiasis

Posted by on at 2:55 pm in Other Top Stories

By: Frederick Baffour Opoku Scientists in Ghana have found a new way to eliminate elephantiasis, which causes severe swelling and immune damage, and is one of the most common causes of disability in the world. Scientists at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research at the University of Ghana say that DNA barcoding can identify [...]

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Practice Democratic Policing, Police Commander Charges Recruits

Posted by on at 2:52 pm in News From Other Newspapers

William N. Jalulah THE REGIONAL Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Alhaji Hamidu Mahama, has charged police recruits in the region to practice, what is now termed as democratic policing. This will ensure that both the rich and poor are treated equally under the laws of the country. Addressing 212 police recruits at their [...]

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Minority Roast Finance Minister

Posted by on at 2:32 pm in News From Other Newspapers

  Charles Takyi-Baodu The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday launched a blistering attack on the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government and its Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, for putting the country in a ‘reverse gear’. Four months after assuming the reins of power, the opposition party said the NDC [...]

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Ninja Sanja Rejected As DCE for Atebubu/Amantin

Posted by on at 2:28 pm in News From Other Newspapers

  Michael Boateng The threat by Nana Owusu Acheaw Brempong, the paramount chief of Atebubu traditional area, to cause mayhem and bloodshed if Ninja Sanja is elected as the District Chief Executive for Atebubu/Amantin in Brong Ahafo region, appears to have worked to perfection. The nominee yesterday failed to secure the mandatory two thirds majority [...]

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Good governance requires effort of all- Mr Anyimadu-Antwi

Posted by on at 2:26 pm in Local, Politics

  Mr. Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, the Member of Parliament for Asante Akim North, has appealed his constituents to shun lukewarm attitude as the nation strives to overcome its economic challenges. He said a critical look at the manifestoes of the National Democratic Congress, People’s National Convention and New Patriotic Party showed that these parties had a [...]

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Sekondi-Takoradi to get its first university

Posted by on at 2:25 pm in Education

The Right Reverend John Harvey-Ewusi, Bishop of the Sekondi-Takoradi Diocese of the Methodist Church, said the Western Region will soon have a campus of the Methodist University College in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.        He said already a technical team has inspected some facilities in the diocese and its final report is expected to pave way [...]

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Lack of parking spaces compel haulage drivers to park along roads

Posted by on at 2:24 pm in Local News

  Haulage drivers in Tema on Wednesday said absence of parking spaces along highways had compelled them to park their trucks on shoulders or almost in the middle of roads.      The drivers said when their trucks develop fault, they do their best to find appropriate place to back “but where it becomes impossible we [...]

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